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Matt Rock
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I just saw a story on yahoo that I figured I should bring up here . Apparently, the brilliant marketing genius' at Turner broadcasting decided it would be swell if they placed devices (which look like little bombs to most people) all around the city of Boston, as well as several other major american cities, to promote Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

What do you guys think of this? First of all... how did no one find any of these in any of the other cities where they were set up? And what do you think about the mayor of Boston asking for harsh sentencing... do the people who placed these deserve jail time, or do you think a harsh warning would suit this situation just fine (seeing as how there wasn't any serious intent to cause trouble with the devices)? And if you think they should go to jail, who do you think should serve the time... the suits who issued the order to place them, or the lowly employees who ran around putting them all over the city. Afterall, it more than likely wasn't their idea, so why should they be punished? Discuss


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Posted: 1st Feb 2007 04:35
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I don't know why Turner would have spent the money to promote such an obscure cartoon like Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

I mean, I watch it...but it has a very small audience. If anything, this "bomb scare" (man people in boston are stupid) generated lots of publicity for the movie.

How did this thing resemble a bomb device? It was essentially a litebrite image of a moonite giving you the finger for christ sakes.

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Posted: 1st Feb 2007 05:15
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I remember seeing the Mooninites episode of ATHF years ago, it was hilarious.

Quote: "Mooninite: You and your 3rd dimension, it's cute, we have 5... thousand
Frylock: Well I only see 2
Mooninite: Well that sounds like a personal problem"


One of my favorites.


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Posted: 1st Feb 2007 05:24 Edited at: 1st Feb 2007 05:45
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I live near Boston. I didn't hear about this until I got home from school. All I heard was that there was a bomb scare in Boston and that a lot of the city was shut down. One of the main highways into the city was shut down too.

It wasn't until I was watching the news later that I saw the mooninite. I was like wtf?!?! ATHF?! I was laughing, but I knew I shouldn't have because of the problems it caused. What Turner did was wrong.

I could see why maybe the city would think the thing is a bomb. But shutting down roads and stuff? Maybe a bit over-reacting.

It wasn't a really good idea to make this their marketing plan. Sure it got them attention, but it also cost the city thousands of dollars. Thousands of people couldn't get to work. This was a bad move on Turner's part.

Quote: "(man people in boston are stupid)"


The police didn't know what ATHF was, and they had to destroy it because they thought it was a bomb. How does that make bostonians stupid? If you see the same object all over the city, and you don't know what it is, you're going to be suspicious. In a post-9/11 world, I can understand why Boston reacted the way it did, but I do think that the city over-reacted a bit too much.

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Posted: 1st Feb 2007 07:04 Edited at: 1st Feb 2007 07:06
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I am a big ATHF fan.But why the Mooninites?They could have put Frylock,Meatwad and/or Master Shake there.The worst that could have happened then is that somebody would have mistaken them for McDonald's ads.

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Quote: "Most if not all of the devices depict a character giving the finger."


I bet the guy who got arrested for this is doing the same thing right about now.

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Posted: 1st Feb 2007 09:49
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Wow, these people are idiots...

I mean, it was a sign stuck to a wall...
What the hell kind of threat would a sign pose to anybody?

I get that it had wires and stuff hanging from it, and it flashed or something, but... What terrorist in their right mind sticks a bomb in plain (perfect advertising position) view for anyone and everyone to find?

C'mon America, get a grip.

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Posted: 1st Feb 2007 14:45 Edited at: 1st Feb 2007 14:45
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Hey Jess,

It's america's new favorite past time...making themselves sick over paranoia, and letting the media giants like CNN pwn them into living subversive, homebound, introverted lifestyles. Don't go into the light or someone who's not white (so they believe) is going to call jihad on your arse. The terrorists have won when you start believing everything CNN wants you to believe.

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Wow... simply put... um... WTF?!!!!! I can't believe people are scared about bombs that SIGNS with blinking lights and wires shutdown the city. What Turner did was not wrong, what Boston did was wrong. When you get calls of potential bombs, why don't you get a first hand account of what it is before you shutdown the entire city. I'm sorry to any Bostonians out there, but seriously, come on!


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I have to say, the talk over at BoingBoing, Make:Blog and Digg is far less "Obviously Bomb-Like" and more "Harmless LED Toy Displays".

It saddens me that people who can create nifty little displays with a soldering iron and some LEDs will probably find that in 5 years time, they're not allowed to buy a battery or resistor without government clearance. Much like how you can't buy the ingredients to a lot of handmade toiletries nowadays (like bath fizzers).

Over-reaction, and sad state of affairs, imo.

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just another in a long list of subtle reminders of "terror" to the american psyche. I cant imagine Turner Broadcasting wouldn't know the potential of this stupid stunt and how it would be percieved, and how the pwnt media would use it in the ongoing propoganda machine - so it has to make you wonder if it was a 2 fold plan all along - 1)publicity for their stupid cartoon and 2)the added benefit of re-reminding people of the spectre of "terror" - "wooo the boogie man is coming! we need the people in charge to save us. let's give up more of our freedoms for security!" Bloody pathetic already, seriously. Ben Franklin's corpse just committed suicide for like the 900th time.

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For your amusement, here is a video of the two guys holding a press conference:

http://wbztv.com/video/?id=28369@wbz.dayport.com

They blatently defy the media, mostly b/c their lawyer told them not to discuss the case, but the media wanted to discuss it anyway, so they took the media for a hairstylin' joy ride

Aside from being real-life spammers, I really really like these guys.

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After seeing that video, I have to say it... innocent. Anyone who blatently insults the media like that can call themselves my friend


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And this folks is why I hate my city!

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Mayor: "What happen?"

Police guys: "Somebody set up us the bomb!"


'Nuff said.

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All because some fool said IED instead of LED over the emergency responders communications band.

Mistaken identifiction of suspicious item.

They should sue the person who mistakenly reported an IED.

Improvised Explosive Device <> Light Emitting Diode

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For those blaming the entirety of America for 'paranoia', I for one would like to say that most of the U.S. (excluding the media) doesn't give a rat's arse. There is an extremely small amount of people freaking out about this.

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Unfortunately the small portion (ie: conspiracy theorists such as Rustler....) represent America in its pride and glory.

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Uh oh, I see where this is going...

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The problem is the law enforcement had to treat the calls as if they were real bomb threats. People who called in are just stupid.
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Couldn't agree more Krilik.

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You couldn't agree more? I can

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Steve, be careful... Regardless of if he's a moderator or not, that's bordering on breaching the AUP.

Be a nice netizen

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Im sorry jess, but isnt what he is saying a borderline breach? He is discussing his political beliefs, I was just responding with what I thought of them.

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Please don't turn this into yet another debate about CR's sig .

The more I hear about this incident, the more I feel like these guys are completely innocent. I'd be having a laugh if I were them, I mean really, to put up some advertising and have everyone in Boston hold their breath for an afternoon? To me, that's pretty funny. And from what I've seen and heard, the only person whose really calling for them to be arrested, loudly anyway, is the mayor of beantown. Several other cities had these advertisements put up and no one from any of those cities is in an uproar. I'm definitely thinking this is an overreaction.


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Quote: "Im sorry jess, but isnt what he is saying a borderline breach? He is discussing his political beliefs, I was just responding with what I thought of them."

Im laughing, but its fake laugh. Any time you want to discuss facts feel free to email me and we can do that.

Quote: "Please don't turn this into yet another debate about CR's sig "

you must be referring to my old sig that I changed a week or two ago. Every one has seen that film so I decided to link this one instead. Or is that what you meant? I assume you read my sig before you posted that. Did you not like my comment regarding the bloated left-gatekeeper michael moore?

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I meant your old sig... I was worried this one would come under fire as well. I don't really want to get into the Michael Moore thing though . Everyone seems to either love him or hate him.


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And there's a lot of him to go around, so please share. *zing!*

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Okay, so he stores 3 turkeys, a christmas ham, and a dozen jelly donuts in his chin, that's never stopped anyone before!


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Quote: "I meant your old sig... I was worried this one would come under fire as well"

nah, no worries, the only people who had a problem with the old sig were "happy boot-lickers" or the sadly misguided individuals still caught up in the false left-right paradigm. every time one of those discussions came up I asked them to prove by way of the aup that the sig text was political (not where clicking it leads to, but the sig text itself - big diff), they couldn't. Then I asked them if it bothers them so much please take it up with Rich, and if Rich deems the sig breaking the aup I will remove it in an instant. Over the many months it was up, he never did, so I never did - end of story. As far as this new one, it merely sites a film title and its text is quite tame compared to the last one, so I am not worried. Its a film everyone should see btw.

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The list of movies everyone has suggested I see is staggering hehe. I actually have a text file on my desktop filled with movies I'm supposed to watch (and yes, I just added it ). One of these days I need to prioritize the list and try watching as many as I can, I think it's around 40 movies now . But I just watched "An Inconvenient Truth" and "Who Killed the Electric Car" so I should take those off the list. This is usually the part where everyone says "ooh, add [some movie] to your list!" NO! I don't have time lol!


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Add 'Epic Movie', I dare you.


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CR, that was a great documentary. Thanks for the link, that's just the kind of thing that shows you what kind of people run the U.S. It's really sad.


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glad you liked it tell 100 people now

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Well I tried to tell my parents, but they dismissed me saying it was stupid to believe things like that because they're always rigged. They also said that for someone like me (I'm not an adult) who doesn't pay taxes, it's pretty hard to say anything about the IRS.


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Quote: "(not where clicking it leads to, but the sig text itself - big diff"
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CR not that I ever found your sig offensive or breaking the AUP, but what if someone wanted to have their sig lead to a White Power site, Porn Site, or something else that would be against the AUP but the sig is not. Sometimes it's easy to set a dangerous prescedant, just have to ask you to think about the can of worms that you might open when you make statements like above, who knows what ideas people may get.

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Alright guy's, enough talk about that stuff.

I know it's (very loosely) related to this thread (politics), but can we save it for somewhere else? Possibly a private somewhere else..?

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yes, please

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So anyway, back on subject... there's an Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie? Why would they make a movie for a show that (comparatively) has so few viewers?


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Quote: "So anyway, back on subject... there's an Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie? Why would they make a movie for a show that (comparatively) has so few viewers?"


Hey they pull in about a million viewers for a show that's on so late.

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It's kind of like Start Trek...it's not necessairly the amount of fans that watch it.It's that they are fanatical about it.
I watch it almost every night.

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A million? Really? I assumed it would have been less. It's a good show from what I've seen, but still, I'm somewhat shocked that they have a million viewers. Definitely impressive . I'm more of a robot chicken fan I suppose.


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Pay attention to those bumps on adult swim each week, they post the ratings for almost all their shows, oddly Futurama and Family Guy reruns are still about their highest rated shows.

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bah, I always mute commercials. But I'll watch them from now on, it's awesome that they broadcast their ratings. Other broadcasters should do that!


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